Summer of Socks #1

I've interrupted my UFO knitting to participate in Summer of Socks on Ravelry -- three pairs of socks in three months. The first pair is a cotton spiral pattern that I knitted from some Knit Picks Comfy sock cotton yarn in the Hollyberry colorway. My fist pair of cotton socks! I liked the pattern and the yarn (once I got used to it). And I wore the socks to church on Sunday; they were comfortable and I think they will wear well.

Tomorrow, the second sock starts. I already have some red Knit Picks yarn wound in a ball -- again from stash (although I have been on a yarn shopping spree lately, but that is another story).

Bag #1

I forgot until I did my shopping spree post yesterday that I never posted the bag that I made while I was at Mom's -- the bag that led to the shopping spree in the first place. So here it is, warts and all. Actually, I am pretty happy with it. I can't remember the last time I did actual sewing, as opposed to mending.